I watched this video from CUSEC 2008. Partly it’s about how the ACL (Access Control List) is not a turing complete language, but mostly it’s about working within a huge corporation and all the crap thattends to go with it (and advice for programmers in general). I have very little experience of this, but he reminds me why I’m happy working at a small company.
Warning: Lots of cursing, and a little bit of southern accent
A good counter-argument to 37-signals’ less features = better by Joel on Software.
If you don’t have time, or don’t want to watch it (Joel does tend to ramble on (no offense, I think Joel is great)), here’s the summary:
Software Developer. Georgia Tech Alum. Geek. Gardener.
If you collected all of Earth’s water into a sphere, how big would it be?
Our water sphere would have a diameter of 1,385 kilometers (about 860 miles), and span the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas. A sphere this far across would have a volume equal to about 1,386 million cubic kilometers (roughly 332,500,000 cubic miles).
Workers monitor the lift of the space shuttle Discovery from the the NASA 747...
8-bit Google Maps
Actual functional 8-bit Google Maps. Happy April Fools Day.
Wednesday, Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson and NASA head Charles Bolden...
I think the Orlando airport was made out of leftover Space Mountain parts.
Tickets for State...
I recommend Basecamp, the easy to use project manager from 37signals.
I recommend Highrise, the simple conversation/people tracking system.
